CM/Res.379 (XXIII) RESOLUTION ON CONSERVATION OF AFRICAN ECOSYSTEMS
The Educational, Scientific, Cultural and Health Commission of the OAU meeting in its Third Ordinary Session in Reduit. Mauritius, from December 10 to 14, 1973,
NOTING the scientific, cultural and economic importance of African Ecosystems,
REALISING the need to protect those ecosystems from further deterioration through bad land use practices,
CALLS ON the OAU General Secretariat to convene a panel of experts to study the report of the Khartoum Conference on Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Africa and to assess the stage of implementation of resolutions and recommendations,
REQUESTS the OAU General Secretariat to collect from Member States, further information on the current state of conservation of the ecosystems and to pass it on to the above mentioned panel.